Karl Forsman
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Nationality | Swedish | |||||||||||||||||||
Born | Östersund, Sweden | 7 December 1996|||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming Paralympic swimming | |||||||||||||||||||
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Paralympic finals | Rio 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Karl Forsman (born 7 December 1996 in Östersund, Sweden) is a Swedish male swimmer, competing at the S5 and S6 classes, and current Paralympic Champion of the men's 100 m breaststroke (SB5).[1]
With a silver medal from the men's 100 metre breaststroke at the 2015 IPC Swimming World Championships, Forsman qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro. Forsman won a gold medal when swimming the men's 100 m breaststroke (SB5) at the 2016 Summer Paralympics with the time 1:34:27.[1]
References[]
- ^ a b Petter Landén (11 September 2016). "Karl Forsman tog guld på 100 meter bröstsim". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 15 September 2016.
External links[]
- Profile at paralympics.se (in Swedish)
Categories:
- 1996 births
- Living people
- People from Östersund
- Paralympic swimmers of Sweden
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic gold medalists for Sweden
- Medalists at the World Para Swimming Championships
- Paralympic medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Paralympics